"PILICA!! HURRY!!" I laughed as we ran with paint filled water balloons in our hands, the headmistress of our school which we'd just given a new paintjob running after us, shouting furiously, "hey Mr Reynolds!" I grinned as we passed the old man mowing his front lawn.
"Hello Ayame, Pilica, you'd best hurry, you don't want to get caught," he chuckled and we laughed as we ran faster, dodging into an old country lane, but we skidded to a stop as we saw Principal Kendal standing there with two men standing either side of her.
Unfortunately, due to our sudden stop, the paint filled water balloons flung from our arms and splattered all over them, making Pilica and I gasp in horror and hold back laughter as we stared at the multicolored trio in front of us.
"Oh," I started.
"My," Pilica continued.
"God," we finished in unison.
"Get to school, now," Principal Kendal snarled and we trudged behind her sulkily, though we shot each other mischievous grins as we reached the newly decorated school.
We lounged in the office, waiting for our parents to arrive, and passing students shot us congratulations which we grinned at, but the receptionist snapped at them to get to lessons, leaving Pilica and I alone with the crazy old bag.
"Booyah," we whispered with grins as the principal came in, we bumped fists and the woman glared at us, making us giggle slightly as we saw some red and blue paint still stuck in her gray hair.
She huffed and stormed into her office with the receptionist going after with the air of a worried mother hen, making Pilica and I snigger, though we sobered as her parents and my father walked through the door, all of them with disappointed expressions. We sighed and looked into our laps, Pilica's blue hair covering her face while my black hair did the same for me.
"Into my office," Kendal's voice sniffed and we went in.
My father and Pilica's placed Pilica and I in the seats opposite Kendal and we looked at the scowling principal calmly as she glared at us, it was nothing new, Pilica and I were the prankster champions of our town, much to Kendal's outrage.
"I'm afraid I can't keep Ayame and Pilica here any longer," she said icily, "not unless you pay five hundred dollars each for redecoration of this school, otherwise, I think they should go to boarding school in Funbari, the principal of a school there owes me a favour, I can sort it out and you won't have to pay a thing for them to be taught there in their last two years of schooling."
"Boarding school?" my father frowned, placing a hand on my shoulder as I blinked in shock, "don't you think that'll be even worse for them? It'll give them a chance to play even more pranks."
"Pilica's brother, Horo Horo goes to boarding school in Funbari, it seems to have worked out for him," Kendal replied with a sickly sweet smile, "and it's this or five hundred dollars each to pay for redecoration."
"We'll go," Pilica sighed and I snapped my surprised, green eyed gaze on her, though we both knew our parents wouldn't be able to afford it, they had enough money problems as it was.
"Yeah, we'll go, we'll behave daddy," I smiled up at my father, he was the only parent I had because my mom died giving birth to me, so we were really close.
"But Horo's school an all boys one," Mr Usui frowned and Pilica and I looked at each other in horror.
"Yes, don't worry, I'll sort it out," Kendal smirked, "like I said, the principal owes me a favour."
"Bu-but surely Horo will figure it out!" I protested, "I can't go to an all boys school! I'll freeze up! Da-daddy! Tell the crazy lady!"
"First, baby, you need to breathe," dad laughed, "second, it looks like we have no other choice, maybe we could just tell Horo and the teachers and not let the other students know."
"Mr Kizike, my brother has the biggest mouth around, though he is an idiot, so I think we could get away with pretending to be guys, right Ayame?" Pilica said determinedly and I nodded.
"Yeah, we shall be awesome guys!" I declared and Pilica cheered as I pumped a fist in the air, "we shall be better guys than guys themselves!"
"Halleluiah!" Pilica sang.
"We shall walk, talk, act, think and be guys!"
"Amen!"
"We shall-!"
"I think we get it Pilica, Ayame," Mr Usui chuckled, gently pushing Pilica back into her seat as my father did the same to me since we'd somehow both stood during our declarations of guy-dom.
"Well then it's settled, Ayame, Pilica, you're heading to Funbari's Boarding School for Boys," Kendal smiled, "I'll get on the phone now and I'll call you when everything's sorted, now off you go, I have things to arrange."
We all left quickly and Pilica and I grinned evilly, this was going to be fun, we could totally mess with Horo's head! I think boarding school was going to be fun, just have to get packing and cut my long, beautiful locks.
"Hey Pilica," I said slowly, "do you think we could get away with being guys if we don't cut our hair?"
"Let's get wigs!" she said brightly and I grinned.
"Yeah!" I nodded, waving to her as I climbed into my father's car, "I'll call you later Pilica!"
"Yeah! See ya Ayame!" Pilica called, waving back at me.
Sighing, I sat upside on the couch and flicked through the afternoon television programmes uninterestedly, there was nothing on, except creepy chat shows, urgh, although, it was fun to laugh at their problems, though that just sounds mean, ah well, I am mean, Pilica's always telling me so.
Then the phone rang.
"Daddy! Phone!" I called to him from my upside down spot on the couch, "can you get it?! I'm finding it rather difficult to get up right now!"
Dad came into the sitting room and shook his head as he saw me in my upside down position on the couch and answered the phone, "oh, Principal Kendal, all set for tomorrow? That just doesn't leave us much time to get the girls' things, oh, the school's providing the things? And the plane's all set? Well in that case, Ayame will be there," dad said and I yelped as I fell of the couch in shock at what I'd heard.
Dad hung up and looked at me apologetically as I stared at him in shock, then I stood and hugged him tightly, he hugged me back and kissed the top of my head softly as the phone rang again.
"That'll be Pilica," I smiled, pulling out of the hug and answering the phone, "hey Pilica."
"It's tomorrow!" she squealed excitedly in my ear and I laughed lightly.
"I know, it's going to be so cool!" I grinned.
"We get to mess with Horo's mind!" she cackled evilly and I giggled.
"I know! And he's on vacation with some of friends for the summer so we can sort all this out while he's not here!" I exclaimed happily, "we'd better share a dorm though otherwise it'll just be awkward."
"I know, but we get to mess with Horo's mind!" Pilica squealed and I laughed again.
We chattered away for ages before my father physically wrestled the phone from me and hung up as I screamed:
"BYE PILICA!! LOVE YOU!! SEE YOU TOMORROW AT THE AIRPORT!!" at the phone loudly and my father shouted:
"DINNER'S READY SO GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE!!"
My life was so much fun!
"Dad," I sighed as I ate my delicious pasta, dad was a chef, "are you going to be okay here on your own? You won't get lonely?"
"I'll miss you, but, I'm sure I'll be fine, just as long as you stay out of trouble," dad grinned at me, "and don't let any boys find out that you're really a girl, I don't want you hurt, just stay low and keep your nose clean."
"I'll wash it everyday," I nodded seriously and he chuckled as he flicked a piece of pasta at me and I squeaked with protest before flicking one back at him and we started a pasta fight with laughs.
I was going to miss my dad while I was away.
I held back tears as I hugged my dad goodbye at the airport, "bye daddy, I'll call when we land, okay?" I said softly, hugging him tightly as he patted my back gently.
"You better, and take care of yourself," he replied quietly as Pilica and her parents went through the same kind of thing before my best friend and I headed for the plane.
The flight was only a few hours long and we were pretty quiet during it, the euphoria of being sent away from the cow that ran our old school wearing off as the realisation of not being able to see out parents for months sunk in, plus the danger of two girls being found at an all boys boarding school, who knows what would happen if we got found out.
"Hey, we're here," I said quietly as the plane landed and Pilica nodded as we stood and got off the pretty much empty plane since the other students wouldn't be arriving until tomorrow.
We quickly got our bags and went outside to catch a taxi, "Funbari's All Boys Boarding School," Pilica told the cabbie who nodded and began driving as we leaned back in our seats.
"So, why are two girls going to an all boys school?" the cabbie asked curiously and we grinned.
"Just visiting the headmaster, he's my uncle," I lied smoothly and Pilica nodded in agreement as the cabbie nodded too to show he understood before the cab grew silent again.
"Here we are girls," the cabbie announced ten minutes later and we quickly paid him as we climbed out with our bags in hand.
"Thanks," Pilica smiled as a man with long, black hair and tanned skin walked towards us and the cab pulled away from the curb.
"Welcome," the man smiled, "I'm Silva, headmaster here."
"Hey, I'm Ayame and this is Pilica," I answered, "we haven't really decided on fake names just yet, but have said that we'll pose as cousins so that Horo doesn't work out who we are."
"Good idea, now if you'll come with me," Silva said, turning and walking back into the school which was huge, I mean, it was bloody massive, I was so going to get lost, I didn't have that good of a sense of direction.
The school was old fashioned looking too, that old gray brick and the old looking windows, it looked pretty cool actually, all gothic and stuff, but creepy too, but I guess we'll get used to it after a while, though how we're supposed to convince everyone we're guys I'll never know, Pilica's a real girly girl, loves her blue hair long, likes wearing pink, I just hope we survive.
"Here, you can use this money to buy school uniform and clothing for your disguises," Silva said as we reached his office, handing us two loads of money and our jaws dropped, there was loads of money, loads of it, "I'll show you to your dorm, and then you can leave," Silva smiled at our gob smacked expressions.
"Tha-thank you," I stammered, following him through the mazes of corridors.
"I don't suppose there's a map we could use?" Pilica asked weakly as we turned yet another corner.
"Yes, here you are," Silva laughed, pulling a map from nowhere and handing it to her as he opened a door, "this will be your dorm, be cautious, do not let anyone find out your girls, the council will have my head on a silver platter."
That made Pilica and I start laughing, Silva's head on a silver platter, hehe.
Obviously Silva didn't think so due to the glare that was trained on us, so we hastily silenced and said a quick:
"Be back in a few hours sensei!" before bolting quickly and getting incredibly lost.
Ten minutes later we were outside the school and looking up at the blue sky with happy smiles, "we made it! I thought I'd never see you again oh beautiful blue sky!" I wailed happily and Pilica burst into happy sobs as I dragged her off the school grounds to the rows of shops a little way down the street.
I yanked her into one and she put on a grin as we began flicking through boys clothes, "hey, this would look good on you," she smiled, holding up a black, button up shirt with a silver dragon printed on the front.
It was pretty cool, I nodded and she dumped it into her basket quickly as we continued on our search for clothing that would last us two years of our life at a boys boarding school, man, I never thought I'd ever think that sentence, this is just too weird.
An hour later we were heading back to school with everything we needed in a lot of bags and a bit of money left over which we planned to send to our darling parents. We'd had our hair cut so it was more boyish and fell to our shoulders, mine was pulled into a careless ponytail with black bangs falling over my face while Pilica's was pulled back neatly in a blue ponytail on the top of her head, we still looked like girls, but we figured with the chest bindings and the guys clothes, we'd pass.
Hopefully.
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